Book Report: Superfoods Rx: Fourteen Foods That Will Change Your Life

OK, Allan Horner told me I had to read this book, and I bought it immediately. The Superfoods are surprisingly easy to get into your diet, except for the wily pumpkin. I mean, you can only make so much pumpkin pudding and it is very difficult to cut up a regular pumpkin. I have had to substitute it (most of the time) with one of its easier to prepare cousins, the sweet potato.

Anyway, the Superfoods are:

• Beans - reduce obesity
• Blueberries - lower the risk for cardiovascular disease
• Broccoli - lower the incidence of cataracts and fights birth defects
• Oats - reduces the risk of type II diabetes
• Oranges - help prevent strokes
• Pumpkin - lowers the risk of various cancers
• Wild salmon - lessens the risk of heart disease
• Soy - lowers cholesterol
• Spinach - decreases the chance of cardiovascular disease and age-related macular degeneration
• Tea - helps prevent osteoporosis
• Tomatoes - rase the skin's sun protection factor
• Turkey - helps build a strong immune system
• Walnuts - reduces the risk of developing coronary heart disease, diabetes, and cancer
• Yogurt - promotes strong bones and a healthy heart

So the book starts out with this chilling comparison epiteth about old age:

"You are making decisions right now, at your very next meal, that will affect how you spend the rest of your life, whether you are 22 year old or 62. See this book as the fork in the road:

One way lead to a handicapped space in front of the mega drugstore. You're 68 years old .... you take 9 prescription medications and on a good day you can walk around the block with your grandson. On a bad day, you log a lot of TV time.

There's another choice..... You're 68 years old and you've just finished a tennis game with your pals. You duck out of line (at the farmer's market) to grab a small red cabbage and smile when the cashier says, "I don't know where you get your energy!".

It's a simple choice, really: the right foods or prescription drugs."

Oh, My Gosh!!! I have to be that 68 year old at the farmer's market. I HAVE TO BE. I HAVE TO BE.

So, I have incorporated several aspects of Superfoods into my life.

1. I drink a glass of V-8 everyday
2. My Grab the Gold bars are chocked full of oats
3. I eat blueberries in a smoothie or my cereal everyday
4. I have changed to soy milk in my cereal. Easy switch, by the way
5. I put soy powder into my smoothie
6. I have a yogurt smoothie every other day
7. I put walnuts on all my salad for lunch everyday
8. On every salad I make at home, I put a bunch of chopped spinach on top
9. I drink two green teas for breakfast and two whites throughout the day
10. Lots of hummus
11. Lots of high vitamin C juice sips through out the day
12. I am pretty much down to turkey and salmon for meat
13. Again, the pumpkin thing is hard, I am dependent on the sweet potato
14. I am kind of lazy about broccoli

So, Superfoods has changed my life. I mean, I have read the Perricone Prescription and The Zone, both are good. The Zone is the book that Jennifer Anniston supposedly followed it and it is about protein and portion sizes. The Perricone Prescription is about protein and portion sizes, but it talks about getting high quality proteins and emphasizes salmon and speaks more about complexion. Superfoods is my favorite for talking about an all around livable healthy lifestyle. I encourage you to pick up a copy today!!!